#because it was like Mozart or Haydn. he was just cranking them out for the 9 to 5 of it all. he didn’t consider this music to be great art

[dandelion-de-deus]

The soundtracks to these gorgeous animations, also!! Dmitri Shostakovich, the Soviet Union’s pet composer (and one of the most respected classical composers of the last century) made his bread and butter writing soundtracks to these old animated movies, along with many other respected composers

disney concept art: the most beautiful dynamic original thing i have ever seen

disney finished project: rubber same face minimalism regurgitated plots 

[female-malice]

Why do you think Mozart’s music isn’t genius?

Because he's not Beethoven.

Mozart's music is about performing in court for aristocrats. Mozart did not move stylistically beyond what he was taught by Haydn. Mozart was not the first at anything. He was not the inventor of the classical style he composed in. He was not the first child prodigy to travel from court to court.

I'm not saying Mozart's music is bad. It's good. But the word genius is a very loaded and lofty word that I don't like to use. If you're going to use the word "genius" for someone, it should be someone who's ahead of their time. Mozart was a man of his time, not ahead of it.

I give Haydn more credit than Mozart because Haydn had a larger role in the creation of the classical style. Also, Haydn had enough humility, patience, and restraint to be a good teacher.

Haydn was both Mozart's teacher and Beethoven's teacher. So Beethoven was given the same exact lessons as Mozart by the same exact teacher. And Beethoven changed the course of music history in a way that Mozart didn't.

Beethoven was a century ahead of his time. Beethoven invented the romantic style. And he even wrote music in the modernist style that came after the romantic style. Every composer that came after Beethoven copied Beethoven's romantic style. And 100 years after Beethoven's death, modernist composers like Stravinsky were clearly inspired by Beethoven's proto-modernism.

Also, there's the rate of composition. Mozart has 50 symphonies while Beethoven has 9. But it's about quality over quantity. Every single one of Beethoven's symphonies shattered all the norms and conventions of style. Then he'd go back to his little closet of an apartment and work on the next one. And work on it and work on it for like three whole years. And then he'd pull it out and bam! Break through all the style and convention breakthroughs he made in the previous symphony.

Mozart's 50 symphonies are not like this. He was just cranking them out. They're conventional to his time period and to the classical style. They're good. They're nice. That's it.